Nigerian
soldiers have written to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting that
their monthly allowances owed them for seven months be paid.
The letter obtained by Naij.com tells a pathetic story of a country that constantly fails to care for its own.
Read it below:
To Mr President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
We are officers and soldiers of Nigerian
Battalion 45 (NIBATT 45 UNAMID) deployed on January 5, 2016 on a
peacekeeping mission in Sudan.
Since our deployment, life had been so
difficult for us. Even to communicate with our families has been a
problem due to lack of finances.
The army has refused to pay us our
allowances of $100 monthly since the beginning of the mission here in
Sudan and this is the seventh months without payment.
Many of our soldiers undergo surgical
operation due to poor feeding, no drug for us whenever we are sick. The
only remedy for us when we are sick is to be referred to Pakistan
hospital due to lack of drugs in Nigerian Contingent Level 1 Hospital.
We have been in this Mission in Sudan
for seven months now yet our domiciliary account in Union Bank of
Nigeria has only been credited with two months and 27 days salaries out
of the 7 months so far.
We ask Mr President to look into this issue to make his anti-corruption campaign in the Armed Force a success.
If nothing is done very soon, we will be force to take the law into our hands.
PAY US OUR SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES.
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